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I'm just saying with Cura Davis.

The town of Miami Beach in Florida has long had a reputation for obnoxious spring breakers and the type of rowdy crime

that comes with such an atmosphere. The state of Florida has been steadily gaining a reputation

in our nation for being family friendly. But the city of Miami Beach, along with a few others,

have not traditionally been places a family might want to visit, particularly during the

spring break season. But all that seems to be changing for the Florida Beach City with the election

of a new mayor. Stephen Minor was elected on the promise to clean up Miami Beach's rowdy reputation,

and he seems to have done just that. Fox News Digital's Carol Markowitz recently visited

the city and wrote about her experience. She says police were present, but quietly, so it didn't

seem like a scary environment that required police presence, just that they were around in case of

any problems. The city felt safer, but also cleaner and more

organized. Disorderly crowds were nowhere to be seen. I assume they achieved this result with more arrests,

but in fact arrests were down this year from previous years. It turns out deterrence played an

important role in the city. It ran an ad campaign that had gone

viral online, breaking up with spring break. A memorandum from Raquel Williams, interim city

manager a few days ago, noted while some of the measures have been employed in the past,

the totality of the 2024 spring break measures was

unprecedented, particularly with respect to the Miami Beach's Breaking Up with Spring

Break campaign that reached a global audience and garnered an estimated 19.8 billion media

impressions. Markowitz also interviewed the mayor, who told her a united front

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